WaltK_AZ
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- Joined
- 12 Sep 2025
- Posts
- 54
- Location
- Tucson, Arizona
Recent posts
- 400 f/4.5 GM or one of the 100-400s for football from the touchline?
FWIW... 1.8kg isn't heavy, it's a workout. I haul the 180-600 around the desert for hours at a time and that's over 2kg. A decent strap that goes across the body, not round the neck, and you'll…
Post #6, in Lenses - Starling murmurations, settings that don't turn into mush?
We don't get the big starling shows out here but we do get the sandhill cranes coming in to roost at Whitewater Draw in winter and it's the same problem... the good stuff happens right as the light…
Post #6, in Wildlife - Bradgate rut yesterday, people getting way too close
Same story with the elk up on the Mogollon Rim come September. Folks see a big animal standing still and assume it's tame... FWIW the bugling bulls out there have sent more than one tourist home in…
Post #6, in Wildlife - Z5IIc announced, the Z5 II with no viewfinder. Who is this for?
IMHO it's for the folks who bought a Zfc for the looks and never once put their eye to it. Plenty of those around. I see them at the trailheads up on Mount Lemmon, nice little silver camera held out…
Post #3, in Nikon - Sony FE 400 f/4.5 GM and 600 f/6.3 GM announced, both under 1kg
Well well, welcome to the club, Sony folks. ;-) Seriously though, those are nice numbers. Under a kilo for a 600 used to be pure fantasy. FWIW I hear folks have been waiting months on the Nikon 600…
Post #2, in Lenses - Should I sell my X-T30 II and go full frame before I get any deeper into Fuji?
Touché. Walt
Post #15, in Buying Advice - Should I sell my X-T30 II and go full frame before I get any deeper into Fuji?
I'll be the contrarian. If you think you'll want full frame eventually, and it sounds like you do or you wouldn't be asking, then $1,100 sunk is about the cheapest exit you'll ever get. Every lens…
Post #13, in Buying Advice - Eclipse report from near Teruel, it happened!! (long)
Congratulations, Marta. The people-on-the-hill frame is the one you'll treasure, mark my words. Drove up to Wyoming for the 2017 one with my old DSLR and a long lens and shot the whole thing by the…
Post #10, in Showcase - Sony buying Tamron?? whats that mean for the rest of us
IMHO it's less dramatic for Nikon folks than it sounds. Nikon's own Z 28-75 f/2.8 is a Tamron design with a Nikon badge on it, and Nikon has plenty of good glass of its own. If that pipeline dries…
Post #6, in Lenses - Pre-release capture on the Z8 for hummingbirds: how long a buffer?
Half a second it is. Cuts my culling roughly in half. Jim, I'll take your "cheating" as a compliment. Walt
Post #4, in Wildlife